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ARANEAE (spiders)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon	Summary	Date	Vice-county	Country
Araneae		9 May 2001	Berks	England	2	3

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon
Family	AGELENIDAE	2
Species	Agelena labyrinthica (Clerck, 1757) (Labyrinth Spider)		1
Genus	Tegenaria (cobweb spiders)	1	27	3
Family	ARANEIDAE (orb spiders)	9	24	15		1	2
Family	ARGYRONETIDAE	1
Species	Argyroneta aquatica (Clerck, 1757) (Water Spider)		1
Family	ATYPIDAE	1
Species	Atypus affinis Eichwald, 1830 (Purse Web Spider)						1
Family	CLUBIONIDAE	1
Genus	Cheiracanthium	1					2
Family	DICTYNIDAE	1
Genus	Nigma	1				1
Family	DYSDERIDAE	1
Genus	Harpactea (a genus of woodlouse spiders)		5
Family	GNAPHOSIDAE (ground spiders)	1
Genus	Drassodes (a genus of ground spiders)	1	11	7	1
Family	LINYPHIIDAE	5	5	12	17
Family	LIOCRANIDAE	1
Genus	Agroeca (a genus of running foliage spiders)	1	1	5
Family	LYCOSIDAE (wolf spiders)	1	1				4
Family	METIDAE	1
Genus	Zygiella (a genus of orb-weaver spiders)	1	2
Family	OONOPIDAE	1
Species	Oonops domesticus de Dalmas, 1916 (a six-eyed spider)		5
Family	PHILODROMIDAE	1
Genus	Philodromus	1				1
Family	PHOLCIDAE	1
Species	Pholcus phalangioides (Fuesslin, 1775) (Cobweb Spider)		7	35
Family	PISAURIDAE (raft and tent spiders)	2	25	7
Family	SALTICIDAE (jumping spiders)	2	6			1
Family	SEGESTRIIDAE	1
Genus	Segestria (a genus of six-eyed spiders)	1	1
Family	TETRAGNATHIDAE	2
Genus	Tetragnatha (a genus of long-jawed spiders)	2	6	2
Family	THERIDIIDAE	4	9
Family	THOMISIDAE (crab spiders)	2	28				2
Family	ULOBORIDAE	1
Species	Uloborus plumipes (Garden Centre Spider)					1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

General Works

ARANEAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

ARANEAE is associated with:

Bombus - bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

is predator of

Prys-Jones, O.E. & Corbet, S.A., 1987

Associated with ARANEAE:

		is parasitoid host of gregarious, mycelioid perithecium	Torrubiella albolanata - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae)		Dennis, R.W.G., 1978 [on small spiders among debris of marsh plants in summer]
		is taken to the nest of female	Arachnospila anceps - a spider-hunting wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)		Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
		is taken to the nest of female	Arachnospila consobrina - a spider-hunting wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)		Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
		is taken to the nest of female	Arachnospila minutula - a spider-hunting wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)		Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
		is taken to the nest of female	Auplopus carbonarius - a spider-hunting wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)		Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
		is taken to the nest of female	Miscophus ater - a solitary wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)		Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
		is taken to the nest of female	Miscophus concolor - a solitary wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)		Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
		is taken to the nest of female	Trypoxylon attenuatum - Slender Wood Borer Wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)		Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
		is taken to the nest of female	Trypoxylon clavicerum - Club Horned Wood Borer Wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)		Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
		is taken to the nest of female	Trypoxylon figulus s.s. - Black Wood Borer Wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)		Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
		is taken to the nest of female	Trypoxylon medium - a wood borer wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)		Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
		is taken to the nest of female	Trypoxylon minus - a wood borer wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)		Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
	adult	adult is predated by leaf	Pinguicula vulgaris - Common Butterwort (Lentibulariaceae)		Darwin, C., 1875 [p370]
	body & legs	body & legs is parasitoid host of scattered, sparsely subiculate perithecium	Torrubiella aranicida - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae)		Dennis, R.W.G., 1978 [larger spiders]
	egg cocoon	egg cocoon is predated by larva	Melanophora roralis - a woodlouse parasite fly (Diptera: Rhinophoridae)		van Emden, F.I., 1954

Araneae may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

References